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What slows it down!?
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<blockquote data-quote="novicew" data-source="post: 298020" data-attributes="member: 14781"><p>Virtual memory is there to swap inactive Applications to the hard drive. Lets say you are running iPhoto and iWeb at the same time. When you want to import a new album in iPhoto, it may require considerable amount of memory. At this point it will swap the data of the iWeb app. which is running in the background to the hard drive. When you start using iWeb again, it will immediately write the data back to the real memory. This process continues as long as you don't have enough RAM to meet the demand.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="novicew, post: 298020, member: 14781"] Virtual memory is there to swap inactive Applications to the hard drive. Lets say you are running iPhoto and iWeb at the same time. When you want to import a new album in iPhoto, it may require considerable amount of memory. At this point it will swap the data of the iWeb app. which is running in the background to the hard drive. When you start using iWeb again, it will immediately write the data back to the real memory. This process continues as long as you don't have enough RAM to meet the demand. [/QUOTE]
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